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It’s somehow comforting to know that the hopey-changey thing is just as rotten as we expected. Hot Air has the story; the title says it: Obama’s SecEd manipulated school lists to favor powerful Here’s the source story. Your kid, however, goes where we tell you! And not to a charter! Especially not in D.C.! (Hat [...] You just know that this is going to make some people — younger people and older people — unhappy. We really can’t have people just working without being paid! The thought of her students taking to the road to get to school prompted Karen Kenna, principal of Cardinal Forest Elementary in Springfield, to issue a [...] Just so I’m not accused of the same trait that I’m bemoaning, let me explain the title. It’s a riff on a standard line in a number old blues and hokum songs. The narrator, we presume, is youngish man, or a teenager, who isn’t quite up on the lingo of his older companions. They make [...] It seems a universal truth, at least in the English-speaking world, that school is an aversive environment for boys, particularly boys who are academically inclined. The Observer reports (“Clever boys dumb down to avoid bullying in school“, 3/29/09) on a study that shows boys altering their behaviors so as to not appear too “clever” in [...] There are two excerpts below. Read both and see what’s common to them. Governor John Baldacci announced the expansion during his State of the State address Tuesday night to the Maine Legislature. Maine first deployed laptops in grades 7 and 8 in 2002, though the law that established the initiative has always called for laptops [...] |
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